 | John Dryden - 2003 - 967 pagina’s
...it in the expression of Sir John Denham, to Sir Richard Fanshaw, on his version of the Pastor Fido. That servile path, thou nobly dost decline. Of tracing word by word and line by line A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations, and translators too: They but preserve... | |
 | Vittoria Intonti - 2004 - 282 pagina’s
...viva invece nella piena consapevolezza della dignitą e del valore della propria identitą culturale: That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing...are the labour'd births of slavish brains, Not the effects of Poetry, but pains. Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrownesse afFords No flight for thoughts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...Fanshaw's version of Guarini contains a very sprightly and judicious character of a good translator : That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word by word, and line by line. Those are the labour" d birth of slavish brains, "Nx! the effect of poetry, but pains; Cheap Vulgar arts, whose narrowness... | |
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No flight for thoughts, but poorly stick at words, A new and nobler way thou dost pursue, To make translations and translators too, They but preserve the ashes; thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. 
